The first of three essays in this issue are about New Labour and its origins. I put mine first because of its general, context-setting nature. The subsequent essays, on the Successor Generation and the operations in the British Unions, deepen and thicken the section towards the end of the opening essay which discusses New Labour’s Atlanticist connections.
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Thanks for information or documents since the last Lobster to David Maddison, Harlan Girard, Robin Whittaker, Harry Irwin, Peter Watson, Ace R. Hayes, John Booth, Chris Tame, Frank Krstulja and Morris Riley.
Lobster fund-raising part 2
Turned down by the Rowntree Trust, I was advised to apply to the Lipman-Miliband Trust ‘For socialist research and education’. I asked for £200 and was rejected because the trustees ‘did not feel it fell within [their] terms of reference’. Not socialist enough or not educational enough? The Trustee to whom I put the question did not reply.
In response to my appeal for information on institutional sources of finance, a number of subscribers sent me money. I am grateful to them, but do not want any more individual donations. Lobster will survive without them and I do not feel comfortable being obliged to individuals. Lobster‘s chief virtue, in my opinon, is that precisely because it has been entirely self-financing – save for two donations around Lobster 9 from Ace R. Hayes and G. F. Newman – it is in nobody’s debt and can thus continue to be the cranky thing that it is.
Errors in 32
Two errors occurred in my comments on the Kenn Thomas books pp. 45 and 6. I got Danny Casolaro wrong (review of The Octopus): had it as Danny Casaloro a couple of times – which, as Kenn points out, is Italian for stew, so not wholly inappropriate, given my comments! I also got DISC wrong (review of NASA, Nazis and JFK); I had Defense Industries Security Command, when it should have been Defense Industrial Security Command.
Error in 31
A letter from Terry Little, former employee of the TUC, pointed out that it wasn’t Edith Chipchase who worked at TUC HQ at Transport House, but Ethel Chipchase, who worked at Congress House.
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